Organ Grinder

· Posting material on the internet is technically (and legally) publication - whether you think you've restricted it to your "friends" or not. Anyone who posts photos and other material on sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Blogger etc. can't complain about that material being used by others - it's in the public domain! aurige

· Exactly. Grow up and stop feeding that little voice inside your head that tells you that you need to share every small detail of your life on the internet. We have so little privacy in the modern world: learn to enjoy what we do have and don't give it up so cheaply.oniongravy

· [When the student Alex Hill says:] "I don't know how this happened, especially as my privacy settings were such that only my friends and students in my networks could view my photos." I'm guessing that the weak link is "people in my networks" - if the Oxford University authorities have valid Oxford University email addresses (seems likely) then I guess they would be able to join the Oxford University network. tep2

· There is a theory that this generation will be royally screwed over by Facebook for many years to come. collectedvoices

· Rather than playing the zero-sum game of debating whether the university was justified in its actions or not, why not pursue a more active course? It seems only fair, following their invasion of Alex Hill's privacy - by using evidence obtained from Facebook by unscrupulous means - to levy a fine for breaches of the university's code of conduct, that we use Facebook to pay the fine on Alex Hill's behalf and show Oxford University and other establishments who believe that privacy is optional that the trap closes both ways. sinplicity

· My Facebook page has a picture of me cuddling Chris Langham. Should I take it down? DBlack